It’s Mitt’s World
Mitt Romney has been criticized for not discussing foreign policy. Give him a break. He probably figures he’s already said all that he needs to say during the primaries: He has a big stick, and he is going to use it on Day 1. Or as he put it: “If I’m president of the United States ... on Day 1, I will declare China a currency manipulator, allowing me to put tariffs on products where they are stealing American jobs unfairly.”
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That is really cool. Smack China on Day 1. I just wonder what happens on
Day 2 when China, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. debt securities,
announces that it will not participate in the next Treasury auction,
sending our interest rates soaring. That will make Day 3 really, really
cool. Welcome to the Romney foreign policy, which I’d call: “George W.
Bush abroad — the cartoon version.”
I know Romney doesn’t believe a word he’s saying on foreign policy and
that it’s all aimed at ginning up votes: there’s some China-bashing to
help in the Midwest, some Arab-bashing to win over the Jews, some
Russia-bashing (our “No. 1 geopolitical foe”) to bring in the Polish
vote, plus a dash of testosterone to keep the neocons off his back.
What’s odd is that Romney was in a position to sound smart on foreign
policy, not like a knee-jerk hawk. He just needed to explain what ev
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